Post Brexit: Affordable housing for 50,000 at Buckingham Palace
2019-01-17
A Munich-based architecture practice has written an open letter to the queen, asking that she consider sharing her palace with those less fortunate.Continue Reading
Local Journalist Linda Gyulai Adds Another Missing Piece to Montreal’s Municpal Management Puzzle
2019-01-13
Linda Gyulai has been one of Montreal’s top investigative reporters for quite a while and her in-depth articles on corruption and slight of hand over the years at city hall reads like a B movie script with a cast of of smiling shifty grifters in suits that includes mayors, cityContinue Reading
Hyperventilation Is Over The Wall
2019-01-07
The latest quote from Trump concerning the stalemate over funding his WALL: “I may declare a national emergency dependent on what’s going to happen over the next few days, we’re looking at it very strongly. We have a crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being trafficked allContinue Reading
The Dawn of the Ultraintelligent Machines: Will They or Climate Change Kill us All Off First?
2018-12-23
“An ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.” I.J.Good (colleague of Alan Turing) “You’re probably not an evilContinue Reading
A Fully Biodegradable Cork Shed for the Backyard
2018-12-20
In my google search for an image for this article I got a series of photo’s of streets in Cork, Ireland. So I went with that. The structure featured in the article might frighten the neighbours after a few years but it is only cosmetic. https://www.dezeen.com/2018/12/20/bark-studio-cork-studio-recyclable-building-sustainable-architecture/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Dezeen&utm_content=Daily%20Dezeen+CID_7cc8ea51bb2d22edfe83483263e90d8d&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Studio%20Bark%20buildsContinue Reading
Motormouth’s David Booth Rolls in Style over the Global Warming Issue…
2018-12-17
Driving a new Ferrari Portofino, which starts at $215,000 Dave toured some of the burnt landscape on the elevated areas devastated by California’s recent horrific wild fires. Half way through the review he states…‘Of course, some of you are reading and thinking me crass for driving a Ferrari — ofContinue Reading
Are Food Banks Treating the Symtom or Offering a Cure
2018-12-15
A program on CBC radio looked at the increasing cost for fresh produce in Canada and how that impacts the working poor and their families. The show garnered 600 comments covering the micro to macro. Elaine Power an advocate for the working poor wrote in the G&M on the contributionContinue Reading
Tech Embraces Its Guru
2018-11-16
The narrative of a High Tech Guru converges with a feminist writers essay from 1970 on masked group leadership. Are America’s high tech giants good people? The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and others adore him so?Continue Reading
Hollywood in Turmoil a Year After #MeToo
2018-11-13
“Yap, Yap–Go back to Your Kennels,” a leading producer (and he is one of the good guys) was talking off the record to the NYT about Time’s Up, the orgnization founded in January by Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes and other powerful Hollywood women to fight workplace sexual harassment.https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2018/11/12/after_metoo_hollywood039s_got_malaise_that_money_can039t_cure_218919.html contrast thisContinue Reading